Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has denied the rapper, designer and alleged 2024 presidential candidate’s claim that he came up with the idea for Tarantino’s hit 2012 film Django Unchained.
Ye has made numerous claims and allegations lately, while the self-proclaimed genius has been embroiled in a scandal and faces accusations of anti-blackness, misogyny and anti-Semitism as several companies cut ties with him.
They claimed Tarantino stole the plot django– the story of a black slave who trains under a German bounty hunter with the ultimate goal of reuniting his long-lost wife – from the music video for his song “Gold Digger”.
Ye said he pitched the idea to Tarantino and actor Jamie Foxx – who eventually starred in the Gold Digger video – before Tarantino decided to turn the concept into a film starring Foxx.
But Tarantino told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that Ye’s wrong because the writer-director was thinking about doing it django for some time before Ye pitched his idea.
You can hear what Tarantino said in the video below.
Tarantino said:
“It’s not true that Kanye West came up with the idea of ’Django.’ He had an idea for a video and I think it was for the Gold Digger video.”
“He was going to be a slave and the whole thing was the slave narrative where he’s a slave and he’s singing ‘Gold Digger,’ and it was very funny.”
“It was a very, very fun idea.”
Tarantino added he came up with the idea for Django Unchained— a highly stylized, heavily revisionist homage to spaghetti westerns, particularly the 1966 Italian film Django by Sergio Corbucci — “for a while before I even met [Ye].”
He noted that Ye eventually wanted to do “a giant movie version” of his debut album The college dropout and had tried to court “big directors” to make films for each song.
Many were not surprised by Tarantino’s comments, attributing Yes’s claims to his increasingly erratic behavior.
Ye received backlash after White Lives Matter t-shirts – including those worn by Ye and Candace Owens – were unveiled during his YZY Paris Fashion Week show. As a result, Ye launched several misogynistic and anti-Semitic tirades and was accused of anti-blackness by community activists.
Instagram suspended Ye from his account after he posted an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in screenshots of text messages with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
In response, Ye returned to Twitter after a long hiatus to accuse Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg of personally banning him from his account after Instagram announced it had banned him for posts that went against its policies violated Ye also tweeted that he was going “death scam 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE,” drawing media attention and further accusations of anti-Semitism.
He returned to Instagram last week, shortly after being escorted out of Sketchers headquarters to announce that he’d lost $2 billion in one day.
Adidas previously announced this ended its $1.5 billion deal with Ye. In addition, TJX Companies, which owns department stores and TJ Maxx, and Gap said they would no longer sell Yes’s clothing.
The losses were significant enough that forbesreported that Ye had been knocked off forbes‘ List of billionaires.
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